Quick-Silver Motorsports had lured him a new kitchen, a 5-year Corn Flake sponsorship agreement, and the fastest power-plant in all of Extravaganza only to turn it down. Johnny Reed Foley will replace Ben Geer in the #29 Budweiser car, taking the risk of teaming up with Tim McDonnell for the second time. "Tim has stepped up his game since we split, he's handed the most durable engines in all of Extravaganza, and I want in. Grab your Corn Flakes for 2022. We'll be unstoppable." Foley later apologized for plugging the wrong sponsor.
After the McDonnell-Foley Motorsports fallout of 2015, nobody would have ever predicted this story. During the 2014 offseason, the team was in the midst of the biggest sponsorship offer in Extravaganza history by NAPA Auto Parts. The team accepted the enormous deal and expanded to four cars, luring veterans Dale Rosendaul and Walt Flowers to drive their equipment. Walt and Dale were contracted to drive NAPA cars for the next two seasons, with Tim and Foley on a part-time basis. NAPA also encouraged every car to switch to Toyota full-time. Foley finished well outside the top-10 in points in 2014 driving a Chevrolet, though he was still not comfortable with the idea of the change. The season would go on wit high hopes for the newly branded organization.
McDonnell was leading the 2015 points with only seven races left, and was in front during the fall Dover event, a racetrack he historically struggled at. With 32 laps to go, he made an attempt to lap his teammate Dale Rosendaul. The two made contact, sending both cars hard into the outside wall. After the initial contact, they touched again, and again, putting second place Tony Pizzaro in a tailspin before Bill Werkheiser pulled off the upset victory. Rosendaul would quit the team the following week to upstart his former Busch Bonanza team Old Farts Racing, recruiting Flowers after the season. McDonnell would eventually lose the Championship to Craig Lee, teaming up with Ben Geer and Honda the following year and losing no ground. Foley surprisingly grew to enjoy driving the Toyota and continued doing so for years, though was adamantly distrustful of the NAPA monopoly that encursed the 2015 season. This would be the only four car team in Extravaganza Series history that went extinct in just one year. We will see how the new history will enfold.
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